PCORnet CMS Linkage Pilot Team has released a white paper to help others learn more about how to use Medicare claims data to support studies. The pilot team developed a process for using Medicare claims data to supplement PCORnet data in pragmatic clinical trials such as the ADAPTABLE study, which compares the effectiveness of different daily aspirin dosing for heart attack and stroke prevention. The project team describes the processes and data flows used successfully in the pilot, as well as lessons learned and recommendations.
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Recommendations for Future Projects
PCORnet Demonstration Project Meeting discussions resulted in this list of recommendations for future projects. Consider these recommendations when developing your own collaborative, people-centered research study.
How can you contribute to scientific manuscripts?
At the request of our patient partners, the PaTH Clinical Research Network (CRN)/PCORnet Bariatric Study teams developed this FAQ resource to help partnering stakeholders understand how they can contribute to scientific manuscripts. It can be adapted for other studies.
PaTH: How EHR Data is Collected and Protected via a Chocolate-Making Analogy
The PaTH Clinical Research Network (CRN) developed this guide to explain how electronic health record (EHR) data is captured, protected, and utilized for research purposes via a chocolate-making analogy.
PaTH to Health: Diabetes, Chocolate Making & Data Extraction Video
This video on electronic health data utilizes the metaphor of making chocolate to clearly lay out how electronic health records can be used to anonymize data. It is a useful tool for clearly explaining EHRs and the privacy inherent in building a research network.
Measuring an Epidemic
Speakers John Muench, MD, MPH and Thuy Le, MPH, both of OCHIN discuss the liberalizing of chronic opioid prescribing in the 90s was soon followed by unforeseen harm to individuals and communities.
Muench and Le review the history of the rise in opioid addiction and overdose deaths, prior efforts to track pain medication prescriptions, and current efforts to organize the ADVANCE Clinical Research Network electronic health record data to more easily describe prescribing pattern changes that follow interventions at national, state, and clinic levels.
Evaluation Plan of a Research Study
This Evaluation Plan from the “PCORnet Obesity Observational Research Initiative,” was used to evaluate the different components of the research study. Use it as an example of how to evaluate your own research studies.
Prepared by: John Holmes, PhD, Brie Purcell, MPH, and Beth Syat, MPH
Common Data Model Glossary
This is the PCORnet Common Data Model Glossary. Use this to learn how terms are used in the context of the PCORnet Common Data Model.
Biorepository Task Force Resources – Informed Consent
The document provides guidance recommendations and strategies for biobank sustainability.